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How many balls do you get through in a season/year, and why?

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After reading and being quite surprised by the amount of balls some people carry, it leads me to ask, how many balls do you get through in a season/year and why?

Now you may like to use a new ball every competition and retire a used ball to the practice shoot, or you play the same ball until its lost or scuffed too much.

Over to you....
 
I pretty much play mine til they are either lost or scuffed up pretty badly.

Its usually lost before its beat up beyond playability
 
I usually go through a couple a round. I will either lose one or hit at tree, path, or something that will damage the ball to the point that it goes in my shag bag.
 
For me I will play a ball until it gets scuffed, then it is retired to the practice kettle. Normally I will start the season with around 4-5 dozen with hopes of making it through.
 
I lose one per round and beat the hell out of another. Once every 2 months I get wild and lose 4 or 5 balls. I play around 100 rounds per year, so that's around 250 balls per year.
 
Like asking how many rain drop fell today. Not sure but I know its alot.
 
That's a tough one to answer for me. I don't typically lose too many and a scuff on my ball has to be pretty noticeable for me to get rid of it. Then again I do have those rounds where I seem to lose every ball that I have in my bag.
 
I play them until they are lost. I may lose a ball or two per 18? I would say I go through 4-5 dozen in a season? Never really thought about it though.
 
Pretty much one per round. Played 180 rounds last year. Looks like 15 dozen balls fo me.
 
I play every day, so it's a new sleeve every day, so figure 30 x 3, or 90 new balls a month, pro v1x, ouch.

Oh, most rounds I throw all three balls into a used ball area of my tour bag after the round and 1 of them is usually brand new, eventually they go into lakes while waiting on tees for golfers that take over 4 hours to play a round.

Guys look at me and ask why I'm hitting new balls into lakes, I say I used them once, and I need to get rid of them.
 
Play a ball until it gets scuffed up pretty badly. Usually get 2 - 3 rounds out of a ball. So that would equate to about 4 dozen per year.
 
I go through a bunch but I'm not very good. Add in that every ball I try seems to be attracted to water or tree lines and I can't keep them.
If one does survive 9 holes, I swap it out and it goes on the Wall of Fame.
 
Erky said:
I lose one per round and beat the hell out of another. Once every 2 months I get wild and lose 4 or 5 balls. I play around 100 rounds per year, so that's around 250 balls per year.
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20 boxes :shock: are you sponsored, if not you need to be
 
I'm not sure if I have an exact number. Last year was the first year where I had multiple rounds without losing a ball (I played approx 35 rounds last year). I typically lose balls before they get too beat up to game on the course, when they do I leave them in my bag and hit them at the range. This year I found a great deal, and I bought 9 dozen E5s for $185.00 (I already have a dozen at home) My goal is not to have to buy any more balls this year and hopefully have some balls that I can carry over to next year or use them as practice balls.
 
All depends on the ratio of all the lost balls I find from these other guys to the amount I lose myself. Just kidding, I donate my fair share too. Usually lose at least one myself and 2 rounds may be a max if I can keep same ball. So if I was guessing I would say at least 5 boxes a season taking in me finding some decent ones to play on the course.
 
I go through, on average, two balls a round. I usually retire the balls to the shag bag at the end of the round or save them for winter play. I hit a lot of wedges and I'm hard on the balls so they get pretty scuffed up.

I play 30 rounds a year so 60 balls. I normally purchase 4 or 5 dozen Tour level balls at the start of the season and play them till they run out.
 
I'd have to say somewhere around 6 dozen. I play a lot during the season and it's about 50/50 on losing/scuffing balls where I don't use them anymore.
 
I probably go through around 3 dozen or so a season. I will play a ball until it is scuffed up beyond repair or I lose it. I don't lose all that many balls usually (I lose most of my strokes around the green...need to fix that haha), so it's common for me to only play 2 or 3 balls a round on most courses, saving the one I used on #18 to start the next round with. On courses without too many hazards, I can sometimes use the same ball the whole round as well. I will also play found balls as long as they are good quality and similar to what I am gaming at the time, so that cuts back on my purchases a bit.
 
I lose a ton of balls, and way before they get scuffed up. I'm sure I went through at least 20 boxes of balls in 2013.
 
I would expect a few of you hadn't realised how many you got through until replying on here! At present the average seems to be 4-6 boxes which is where I would put myself. The excessive end is 15-20 boxes, god they must be tough tracks!

For those averaging 4-6 dozen and based on Pro V's over here, that would be around £175 a year (£15 p/month), at the other end of the scale buying and getting through 12 dozen or more, that would be £420 a year or £35. per month!

I can go 3 or 4 rounds without losing a ball or it becoming too scuffed around my own track, but when I play some of the tough links courses over here, I expect, but try not to, lose a couple a round.
 
Last season I started with 7 dozen balls I had picked up on the cheap in the off season which lasted me the entire season. Very rarely will I play a ball that I find as I've become a semi ball snob so I'd say I put about 100 balls into play last season. I play a lot of links style course so a majority of the balls end up in knee high weeds. Also, I have a way of finding cart paths so I lose a lot of balls to cuts/scuffs.

I'm shocked that many of the replies are less than a sleeve of balls a round. I guess that totally depends on the type of courses you play and the placement of the OB/Water hazards but that number seems really low.
 
mat50 said:
Last season I started with 7 dozen balls I had picked up on the cheap in the off season which lasted me the entire season. Very rarely will I play a ball that I find as I've become a semi ball snob so I'd say I put about 100 balls into play last season. I play a lot of links style course so a majority of the balls end up in knee high weeds. Also, I have a way of finding cart paths so I lose a lot of balls to cuts/scuffs.

I'm shocked that many of the replies are less than a sleeve of balls a round. I guess that totally depends on the type of courses you play and the placement of the OB/Water hazards but that number seems really low.
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The course I play most regularly is fairly tight and tree lined, but there are only a few water hazards and the trees will sometimes kick your ball back into play if you hit a crap shot, so I rarely lose more than a ball or two, and sometimes can make it through on one ball (like last round).
 
Evry couple of rounds, I usually lose a ball. Just about every round, I scuff up a ball bad enough to retire it, usually from hitting trees and desert rocks.
 
mat50 said:
I'm shocked that many of the replies are less than a sleeve of balls a round. I guess that totally depends on the type of courses you play and the placement of the OB/Water hazards but that number seems really low.
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As you state, courses do vary and we can all have purple days and horror days to boot.

However, with that said, if I was loosing a sleeve a round I would seriously question if this game was for me, either that or my course management needed to be addressed.

I played Burnham & Berrow (links) at the weekend, a very tough tight course with plenty of blinds shots and I'd not played it before, I lost 2 balls but they were both off the 18th tee, to say I was gutted would be an understatement, especially unbeknown to me I was leading the field and the last group in at that time. I've also played Hoylake (Royal Liverpool) and lost 2 balls, Wallasey (the home of Stableford) and lost none, Silloth 2 balls, West Lancs 2 balls (1 hole), Formby and many more tough links courses in wind & rain and I've never lost a sleeve of balls to my knowledge.
 
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